Our friends over at EFF are hosting an event this week featuring noted cyberlaw theorist Jonathan Zittrain, who will be delivering a presentation titled “The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It.” Zittrain “will cover the pitfalls and solutions he sees looking forward, as freedom in the Internet ecosystem becomes increasingly threatened…
The second CC swag photo contest winner is Tama Leaver with his entry Cultural Capital. Congrats Tama! There are 3 weeks left and 75 more entries needed to reach our goal of 100. By participating you are helping spread the word about Creative Commons and bringing attention to your own work – what more can…
We just ran a post about the German public broadcaster NDR, who recently announced it will release segments from some of its programs under a CC license. But the flood of positive feedback and media coverage has prompted us to write another article pointing to a few of the gems (mostly in German): The TV…
The Law Report, a weekly program of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, broadcast a program on Creative Commons (mp3) featuring interviews and excerpts from a debate on CC at the Melbourne Writers Festival. The program features Cory Doctorow, CC Australia’s Jessica Coates, and CC skeptics. Read more about the program and other recent appearances of CC…
A 44 page guide to Building a Rural Wireless Mesh Network: Reliable, affordable and easy access to telecommunication services for all has been identified as key to social and economic development in Africa. Self-provisioning and community ownership of low cost, distributed infrastructure is becoming a viable alternative to increase the penetration of telecommunication services in…
Credit Where Credit is Due, an article in Newsweek, about use of text from Wikipedia by major publishers without compliance with Wikipedia’s license, includes quotes from CC CEO Lawrence Lessig on license interoperability: The Free Software Foundation, which maintains Wikipedia’s GNU license, is teaming up with a popular rival licensing movement called Creative Commons to…
If you want to help test the next great version of Firefox, the browser with aspirations for the open web highly complementary with CC’s aspirations, read this post at the Mozilla Developer Center. And a reminder that one of the many cool things about Firefox is that you can access CC Search from the Firefox…
The Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), a public radio and television broadcaster belonging to Germany’s national broadcasting consortium ARD, announced today that they will begin to use CC licenses for some of their programs. The political comedy show Extra 3 and critical media magazine Zapp will release segments of their program under a BY-NC-ND license as part…
The response to the release of our OpenOffice.org Addin last week was great. We had several bug reports, and lots of constructive feedback. I’ve just released an update, version 0.6.1 (download, changes). This version fixes a couple of bugs which caused OpenOffice.org to crash, as well as storing the license metadata in a more logical…
Open Rights Group is two years old, and they’ve published a great report on their activities, which includes promoting and educating the public about CC licensing and researching free culture business models. And everything they publish is licensed under CC Attribution-ShareAlike. Congratulations to ORG and best wishes for 2008!